Groups issue call to action to address struggling human services sector

• Published date: 01 April 2018
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/nba.30432
• Date: 01 April 2018

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Study shines light on

female philanthropists

Research from the Women’s Philanthropy In-

stitute, part of Indiana University’s Lilly Family

School of Philanthropy, shows that high-net-worth

women who give $1 million or larger gifts to causes

that benet women and girls share certain key

characteristics when it comes to their giving� Most

notably, the women:

• Engage in signicant education and research

before making their gifts�

• Make strategic funding decisions focused on

driving systemic change�

• Are willing to take risks with their philanthropy�

The report, Giving By and For Women: Un-

derstanding High-Net-Worth Donors’ Support for

Women and Girls, is based on interviews with 23

high-net-worth women, each of which had given

or pledged at least $1 million to causes for women

and girls�

Researchers grouped the responses into broad

themes, including the donors’ path to large-scale

philanthropy, motivations for funding causes that

benet women and girls, their strategic approach

to their giving and their perceptions of their roles

as leaders in philanthropy�

Researchers found that, contrary to convention-

al wisdom that says women are more risk-averse

than men with their nances, these wealthy women

are willing to experiment and take significant

nancial risks with their philanthropy in order to

advance meaningful change, the report said�

The research builds on a prior Women’s Phi-

lanthropy Institute study, which was the rst-ever

empirical study of individual giving to women’s

and girls’ causes�

For more information and to access the report in

full, visit http://bit.ly/2ogeaAf. ■

Groups issue call to action to address struggling

human services sector

The nation’s nonprot human services organi-

zations are drastically underfunded, face serious

nancial and managerial constraints and lack the nec-

essary capacity to meet the needs of society, according

to a new report from the Alliance for Strong Families

and Communities and the American Public Human

Services Association� That’s troubling considering the

sector accounts for about $200 billion in economic

impact each year, and provides the very services that

underlie a range of social and economic challenges,

including health care and incarceration rates�

The report, A National Imperative: Joining Forces

to Strengthen Human Services in America, offers a call

to action for the private, nonprot and public sectors

to address the challenges facing human services com-

munity-based organizations, or CBOs, that impact the

lives of an estimated one in ve Americans� Nonprot

Business Advisor spoke with the ASFC’s Susan Dreyfus